‘Field of Vision’ — New on Family Movie Night

Posted on June 8, 2011 at 12:00 pm

The latest in the wonderful “Family Movie Night” series from Wal-Mart and P&G is “Field of Vision,” the story of a high school football star who has to choose between his team and his conscience when he sees filmed evidence that his teammates have been bullying a new classmate.

Faith Ford co-stars as the mother of the school’s quarterback (Tony Oller).  If he tells the coach what he saw, they may be disqualified from the championship game.  And the camera’s footage has more secrets to reveal as well.  This is an important movie for families to share as a way to talk about some very difficult subjects, not just bullying but about finding the moral courage to decide between competing loyalties.  It will be available on DVD after the broadcast.

The quote in the movie is from Hillel: “If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And when I am for myself, what am ‘I’? And if not now, when?
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